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Saint Kaminsky bug
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Feast day July 8
Technical record
- Disclosed on
- July 8 2008
- CVE
- CVE-2008-1447
The DNS protocol, as implemented in (1) BIND 8 and 9 before 9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, and 9.3.5-P1; (2) Microsoft DNS in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and other implementations allow remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic via a birthday attack that uses in-bailiwick referrals to conduct cache poisoning against recursive resolvers, related to insufficient randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports, aka "DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability" or "the Kaminsky bug."
Sources: blackhat.com · seclists.org · hackaday.com · web.archive.org · web.archive.org · dns-oarc.net
Elected Pope Kaminsky I in 2008
♛ Pope of the 2000s · Pope Kaminsky, Pontiff of the 2000s
Related scourges: The Miracle of Kaminsky's Patch